Users only need one button to operate the Ellipsis Jetpack. The Verizon Ellipsis Jetpack is a little slow to boot up, but in a minute or two it is online and connected to Verizon 4G LTE if it is available.
Amazon Echo Review: Talking Helper Alexa Is No Match for Siri. The Virtual Assistant Plays DJ for Your Music, But Gets Lost on Other Basic Requests. Meet Alexa, Amazon's voice-activated virtual assistant who lives in the $200 Echo smart speaker. Personal Tech columnist Geoffrey A. Fowler puts her in the interview chair to find out what she can do.
June 23, 2015. Echo, the voice-activated speaker that Amazon announced last November, is officially going on sale today to the masses. A limited number of the devices became available earlier this year by invitation only. I was one of the lucky few who have been using Echo over the last several months. If you ask me, at $180, it's not worth the money.